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Senior Apparel Designer Location: Huddersfield, HD3 4EX Salary: Competitive, depending on experience Contract: Full time, Permanent What We Offer: Competitive salary, Flexible working (1-2 days from home, with flexibility where appropriate), Opportunity to work across multiple established and growing brands, Career progression within a scaling business, Staff discount and sample sales About Us: Hela Brands is a multi brand apparel business operating across menswear, womenswear and kids, spanning apparel, footwear and accessories. Our portfolio includes brands such as Ellesse, Nautica, Reebok, AVX Avirex Dept, Fenchruch, Peter Werth and more. We are seeking for a high performing Senior Apparel Designer to join our talented and enthusiastic design team. This role is suited to an established senior designer with strong creative and commercial instincts, who is confident owning product and with experience leading and influencing others within a fast paced, multi-brand environment. The Role: You will be responsible for designing and delivering commercially focused product across multiple brands, working closely with the Head of Design and wider team to bring collections to life from concept through to final execution. This is a hands on role with leadership responsibility, you will take ownership of product areas while supporting and guiding more junior designers, contributing to both team output and overall design direction. What You ll Be Doing: • Design seasonal product across multiple brands, ensuring alignment to brand identity, design direction and commercial requirements • Translate trend research, consumer insight and competitor analysis into authentic, relevant, credible, commercial product • Produce high quality CADs and technical packs with clarity and accuracy for development teams and factories, integrating with our PLM system. • Work closely with product developers through sampling, fittings and protos, ensuring product delivers against fit, quality, cost and function • Collaborate cross functionally with merchandising, sales and development teams to ensure alignment on price architecture, timelines and product strategy • Present design concepts internally and contribute confidently in range reviews, sign-offs, proto reviews, and sales launch presentations. • Support, guide and influence junior designers, helping to elevate team output and maintain consistency across the range • Maintain awareness of market trends, fabrication and production techniques, applying this to both personal output and team development To be successful in this role, you will have: • 6 8 years experience in apparel design within fashion or sportswear • Strong portfolio demonstrating creative strength and commercial awareness • Experience supporting or mentoring junior team members • Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator (Photoshop beneficial) • Solid understanding of garment construction, fabrics and manufacturing processes • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment • Confident communicator, comfortable presenting ideas and working cross-functionally • Proactive mindset with the drive to take ownership and step into greater responsibility If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on APPLY today, forwarding an up to date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance. No agencies please.

Menswear Designer Premium Brand London A British premium brand renowned for its classic menswear and womenswear collections is currently recruiting for a Menswear Designer with strong multi-product experience to join its growing creative team. As the Menswear Designer you will be responsible for designing and developing their menswear collections alongside the wider design team, product and merchandising teams. Taking full ownership of product lines, attending fit meetings, creating and updating tech packs, and fabric and trim research. You will work closely with the Product team throughout the development process, adhering to the critical path and liaising with internal teams and external suppliers and factories regarding development issues. You will be a valued member of the Design team reporting directly to the Head of Design. To apply for this position you must have previous multi-product menswear design experience working at a senior level for a premium, lifestyle or high street brand. You must have exceptional knowledge of creating tech packs, garment construction with experience working closely with in-house buying and garment tech teams, overseas factories and external suppliers. You must be an excellent communicator (written & verbal) with strong presentation and I.T skills using Adobe InDesign & Illustrator, and Microsoft Office. In return you will be rewarded with a great remuneration package and the opportunity to join the creative team of a growing premium brand. BBBH31033